For nearly a decade, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft circled Venus, offering scientists rare glimpses into the planet’s turbulent ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...

It’s not every day you hear about a troubled spacecraft making a desperate attempt to cling to a planet — for the second time. This image, illustrated before Akatsuki took its second shot at Venus, ...

Ultimately, the Akatsuki and the Kara Organization did share something in common where they are both assisting the celestial ninja known as the Otsutsuki, though the latter knows fully well that they ...

We report Venus image observations around the two maximum elongations of the planet at June and October 2015. From these images we describe the global atmospheric dynamics and cloud morphology in the ...

The last voice from Venus has gone quiet. Japan’s Akatsuki mission, once the planet’s only active observer, has finally fallen silent after years of trailblazing science.

There are some ground rules for this list to make it fair and fun to read: We’re only talking about the period of Akatsuki proper: in other words, prior to the Fourth Great Ninja War. If we count the ...

The Venusian atmosphere is in a state of superrotation where prevailing westward winds move much faster than the planet’s rotation. Venus is covered with thick clouds that extend from about 45 to 70 ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki spacecraft arrived in orbit around the planet Venus in December 2015, five years after missing the planet on its first try. Now, the science ...